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Events relating to north america
US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis
President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway
A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport
In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem
In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village'
US poet Sylvia Plath publishes under a pseudonym her only novel, The Bell Jar
US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group follows the subsequent adventures of eight fellow graduates from Vassar
US environmentist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, an impassioned warning of ecological disaster
US author and illustrator Maurice Sendak publishes a fantasy for young children, Where the Wild Things Are
President Kennedy, in divided Berlin, makes the dramatic declaration: Ich bin ein Berliner ('I am a Berliner')
The Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the USA, USSR and UK, is the first of many international attempts to limit the threat of nuclear war
In The Feminine Mystique US feminist Betty Friedan challenges the stereotypical view of woman's role
A massive civil rights march in Washington 'for Jobs and Freedom' wins the support of President Kennedy
'I have a dream' says Martin Luther King to 200,000 civil rights demonstrators in Washington
Andy Warhol moves into films with Sleep, showing a man asleep for six hours
President Kennedy is shot in a motorcade driving through downtown Dallas, in Texas
On the death of John F. Kennedy, Vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeeds him as president of the USA
Chief suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by night-club owner Jack Ruby just two days after the assassination of President Kennedy
British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight champion for the first time, defeating Sonny Liston
US physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic background radiation, lending strong support to the Big Bang theory
US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego
